See bug #732442 - the uid:gid 160:160 has been reserved for the glance user Using it should be a matter of simply passing -u 160 to useradd and -g 160 to groupadd
openstack-swift-1.4.0-2.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/openstack-swift-1.4.0-2.fc16
Package openstack-swift-1.4.0-2.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing openstack-swift-1.4.0-2.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/openstack-swift-1.4.0-2.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
openstack-swift-1.4.0-2.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.